Acts 21:37-Acts 22:5 - Paul Permitted To Address The Crowd

³⁷ And as Paul should have been carried into the castle; He said unto the high captain, "May I speak unto thee?" Which said, "Canst thou speak Greek? ³⁸ Art not thou that Egyptian which before these days, made an uproar, and led out into the wilderness four thousand men that were murderers?"

³⁹ But Paul said, "I am a man which am a Jew of Tarsus a city in Cilicia, a citizen of no vile city, I beseech thee suffer me to speak unto the people."

⁴⁰ When he had given him licence, Paul stood on the steps, and beckoned with the hand unto the people, and there was made a great silence. And he spake unto them in the Hebrew tongue, saying:

¹ "Ye men, brethren, and fathers, hear mine answer which I make unto you." ² When they heard that he spake in the Hebrew tongue to them, they kept the more silence. ³ And he said, "I am verily a man which am a Jew, born in Tarsus, a city in Cilicia: nevertheless yet brought up in this city, at the feet of Gamaliel, and informed diligently in the law of the fathers, and was fervent minded to Godward, as ye all are this same day, ⁴ and I persecuted this way unto the death: binding, and delivering into prison both men and women, ⁵ as the chief priest doth bear me witness, and all the elders: of whom also I received letters unto the brethren, and went to Damascus to bring them which were there bound unto Jerusalem for to be punished.